WOMAN

An Exposition for the Advanced Mind

David Quinn
Copyright 1993

Woman - An Exposition for the

Advanced Mind
by
David Quinn
Introduction
Someone took a youth to a sage and said: "Look, he is being
corrupted by women."
The sage shook his head and smiled. "It is men," said he,
"that corrupt women; and all the failings of women should
be atoned and improved in men. For it is man who creates
for himself the image of woman, and woman forms herself
according to this image."
"You are too kindhearted about women," said one of those
present; "you do not know them."
The sage replied: "Will is the manner of men; willingness
that of women. That is the law of the sexes - truly, a hard
law for women. All of humanity is innocent of its existence;
but women are doubly innocent. Who could have oil and
kindness enough for them?"
"Damn oil! Damn kindness!" Someone else shouted out of
the crowd; "women need to be educated better!"
"Men need to be educated better," said the sage and
beckoned to the youth to follow him.
The youth, however, did not follow him.
Nietzsche, 1882

***
Of all the myriad creations of Nature, there can be
none more fascinating than woman. Beautiful,
mysterious, charming, warm, sensual, childlike - one
could spend an eternity listing the most sublime

adjectives and yet still fail to do justice to her

womanhood. There are even moments when she seems
on the brink of innite glory. Without any warning, she
can all of a sudden appear so angelic that it would not
surprise one in the least if she were to, at the very
next moment, disappear into Heaven itself. Rare is the
person oblivious to her powers. She casts her spell on
men and women alike. The whole of human history
shapes itself around her, much as everyday things
around us shape themselves around the earth's
gravitational forces. Woman is the centre of all society.
She is the glue which keeps it all together.
But exactly what is she? Where does her power come
from? What lies at the core of her being? Is she really
more "spiritual" than man? More divine? Does she
possess wisdom? Is she really worthy of the
tremendous respect we all give her? What is she?
If I am to answer these questions, then I must look at
her with an honest and open mind. I must examine her
every feature with the same meticulousness a scientist
applies when studying his object of interest. I must
carefully probe my own mind to uncover all its
movements in relation to woman and not let emotion
place it under her spell.
I admit this is not easy. Woman is simply too
pleasurable an entity to want to destroy, and serious
thinking destroys everything it touches. Woe is the
person who thinks! Nowhere can he nd refuge.
Women and men ee him incessantly. Suering upon
suering aicts him, all of which he bears alone. Such
is the price for pure clear thought. Wisdom is not for
everyone.
I present woman here in a very dierent light to the
accepted dogma. It is woman naked, as it were,
stripped of her bright colours and nery. It is a more
truthful view precisely because it is woman without
her nery. Is she allowed to protest against such
scrutiny? She will, of course - for she only welcomes
those truths which overlook her.
Without a shadow of a doubt, these essays will be
misunderstood by all but a few rare individuals. I have
no illusions here. History does not treat kindly those
who are honest in their dealings with woman. To most,
these essays will constitute sure proof that there is
something horribly wrong with my nature. In

anticipation of this, let it be known that there is not

the slightest trace of misogyny in me.
I oer these essays as a guide to those who wish to be
free of woman in their attempt to live the philosophic
life. Woman is a plethora of contradictions, an innity
of nitudes, which must be understood if one is to
succeed in relinquishing the ego. For the study of
woman (and man) is really the study of the ego and
how it manifests in the world.
This work is not a scientic or philosophical thesis
aimed at converting all and sundry with irrefutable
evidence. It is written only for those few individuals
who have cultivated a serious interest in ultimate
truth. Everyone else are advised to read no further.
But it will be these few precious individuals, male or
female, who upon reading these lines will clasp their
hands with a joy of having met a long-lost friend. Yes,
it is to you I write, my brothers! My thoughts are with
you - always.

Why Dissect Women?

The overwhelming impression I receive, whenever
observing the sexes, is that of the tremendous gulf
between men and women. And this, I assure you, is
despite much endeavour on my part to falsify the
impression. I have gone into this issue with extreme
thoroughness, exploring every possible opinion on the
matter from the extremes of feminism on the one hand
to those of traditional chauvinism on the other, only to
nd it conrmed over and over again. Try as I might to
open myself to the possibility that it is all illusion - that
men and women are at bottom the same or at least the
dierences are so small as to pale into insignicance
when compared to the glorious oneness of our
humanity - try as I might, I inevitably fail. The
dierences are too immense.
The only characteristic men and women share is the
desire for happiness. Some would say that this clearly
indicates that the sexes are fundamentally the same,
due to the fact that the desire for happiness forms the
very core of the ego and drives all human action. This
may be true, but it is not particularly useful. For the
sexes chase their happiness in vastly dierent ways,
powered by vastly dierent psychologies, values, and
world-views with little overlap between them.

It is obvious that if two individuals are not the same

but are in fact dierent, then they will have dierent
abilities. One will be better at certain tasks than the
other and vice versa. In the same way, there are areas
of life in which men are far more capable than women,
and vice versa. In general, men are good at conceiving
long-term goals of genuine signicance and possess
the necessary characteristics to bring them to fruition.
Women, on the other hand, live and breathe in the
topsy-turvy world of the emotions, and become experts
therein.
When it comes to spirituality, the dierences are
acute. The average man is far closer to wisdom than
even the most gifted of women. The understanding of
ultimate reality is no small matter. To attain it requires
the masculine attributes of absolute purpose, of
courage and rationality, of single-minded persistence,
constancy under pressure, and a sense of destiny. I
assure you that not one aspect of femininity is even
remotely suited to the task.
The most noticeable quality of woman is her complete
lack of feeling for what is ultimate. Mention the word
"Truth" to a woman and she will simply stare at you as
if you were an alien from another planet. Her feminine
upbringing has long ago closed her mind to such a
possibility. Her truths pertain solely to the world of
emotions. If she were fortunate enough ever to catch
a glimpse of what it means to be truthful, she would
immediately brand it the most inhuman of all things.
And she would be right.
If one is going to transcend all things, then one must
renounce all things. This is easy enough to
understand; the diiculty lies in actually doing it. It
requires a tremendous faith in reason to be able to
renounce everything in the world - including things
like love and happiness and security - purely for an
abstract principle such as truth. Can you honestly
conceive of a woman living for truth? She is
completely oblivious to even the very notion of truth,
let alone the importance of pursuing it.
But what of men? Are they any better? Sad to say,
most men lead mediocre lives and as such are no
better than women. Nevertheless, it remains true that
men as a whole are much nearer to the ideal than
women. Whereas it will always be the case that a small
proportion of men will have potential for wisdom,

there is barely a single woman who can claim even

this.
The true test of a person's spirituality is his
relationship to woman - or, I should say, his lack of
relationship to woman. If he has anything to do with
her at all, it is only to denounce her. He speaks openly
against the feminine - that is, he speaks against
everything humanity values. And why? His love of
truth demands it. It is called teaching the world about
God.
When I use the terms "man" and "woman", I refer rst
and foremost to the masculine and feminine minds.
Men generally possess masculine minds and women
generally possess feminine minds. It is a
generalisation, yes, and I am open to the possibility
that there could be exceptions, but I think that the
exceptions are in reality so rare that the generalisation
can be thought of as a solid truth. The female,
especially, embodies the feminine to a very high
degree and so I have no qualms about interchanging
the terms "woman" and "feminine mind" freely.
I am fully aware that this type of thinking clashes with
the ethos of our times. Our age no longer believes in
cut and dried truths. It assumes things are too
complex for most generalizations to work and our
knowledge too limited to establish anything of
certainty. While this is perfectly true in most worldly
issues, wherein the nite mind has to cope with an
innite number of factors, it nevertheless breaks down
in matters of the spirit.
As far as wisdom is concerned, everything is black and
white. For example, a person either understands
ultimate reality or he does not. He either has an ego or
he does not. He either has potential for spirituality or
he does not. I put it to you that everything a woman
does obstructs the growth of wisdom. This is no
exaggeration. Truth and femininity are poles apart
with an innite space between them. For a woman to
cast her gaze in the direction of truth requires her to
turn away from everything that is womanly, and this is
impossible for her. She cannot even conceive of doing
it.
This is a harsh fact for women to face, especially for
those few who have within themselves the genuine
seeds of idealism. Nature has dealt a hard blow to the

weaker sex. She has discriminated unfairly against

women and there seems to be nothing at present we
can do about it. By all accounts, women are destined
to remain the happy, charming, mindless creatures
they are.
The Great Discrimination
Genetics and culture combine powerfully to restrict a
female's ability to achieve greatness. Although
feminists like to think otherwise, our evolution as a
species has demanded that woman play a far dierent
and lesser role than man. At the same time, her role
was just as vital to our species' survival.
One of the crucial developments in our evolution was
the formation of the tribe. It enabled our ancestors to
deal eectively with the many hazards of an
everchanging environment. We were not a physically
strong species, but we were cunning, intelligent, and
could work together to achieve our ends.
Indeed, as individuals we submerged ourselves to form
integral parts of this larger entity. The tribe can be
likened to an organism unto itself, operating as a unit
under the same laws as any biological organism trying
to survive. The individual human being, as a
constituent part of the tribe, depended for his survival
on the survival of the tribe.
Within the tribe, the parts specialized into various
functions. In particular, the sexual roles divided neatly
apart. Men evolved to be the principal defenders of the
tribe. They also hunted game and attacked other tribes
when necessary. Women's role, on the other hand, was
to rear the children, gather and prepare foodstus,
and generally supervise domestic aairs. Both roles
were necessary for the tribe's survival, and both
complimented each other to this end.
If the tribe is to perform its function, namely to
survive, then it must act as a cohesive unit. Any
clumsiness here would be fatal. This cohesiveness
evolved as the emotional capabilities of the individual
evolved. Emotional cohesion between individuals to
form a functional unit had the combined eect of
preserving stability and increasing the exibility of the
tribe. Indeed, it was central to our excellent ability to
adapt to changing conditions. But the ballast of the

whole process, one which lies at the heart of the

tribe's strength and cohesion, is the dierentiation of
man and woman into separate psychological entities
and the resultant emotional interplay between them.
The males, through their inquisitiveness, courage, and
rationality, open up the possibilities of great change,
but it is woman who ensures that all change be kept to
a minimum and that which she does allow be kept
rmly towards the "common good". Man is by nature
wild and adventurous. In him lie the possibilities of
great creativity, but also the possibilities of great
havoc and discord within the tribe. Hence, woman
evolved with the power needed to restrain him.
Women often complain bitterly about the dreaded
"patriarchal society" and their oppression under it, but
I cannot believe that they are completely ignorant of
the vast power they actually possess in society. Indeed,
they play an enormous role in the historical process.
The role of woman is not only one of reproduction and
the rearing of ospring. Equally important is the
emotional power the females possess over the males.
Women are the preservers of the social organism, and
the men are tools to this end. Thus history is as much
a woman's story, even though it is true that as an
individual she was very much out of the limelight.
Let us be quite clear here. Woman's emotional power
over man does not come from the individual woman
herself, but from the social ction she embodies WOMAN! It is this abstract, ethereal entity which we
all worship, not the bags of blood and guts themselves.
Of course, one look at the modern specimen with its
lipstick, earrings, dresses and bubbly personalities is
enough to make this statement seem unnecessary.
****
WOMAN is a cultural ction to which all females are
drawn, yet it is diicult to state exactly what it is. It
appears intangible and out of this world, yet everybody
knows its existence and feels its power. It fuses
together into one seamless package the elements of
purity, authority, otherworldliness, innocence, delicacy,
erotica, playfulness, mystery, excitement, and power and yet it transcends all these elements to form a
vague yet potent something-or-other. Its eect is to
transx men and women alike, causing them to believe
it the very heart and soul of life itself.

WOMAN is what humanity values most, for in it lie the

greatest emotional happiness and comfort. It provides
the irresistible illusion of purity and rock-like security.
Above all, it promises, or seems to promise, refuge in
which humans can attain what they believe to be the
highest good - the freedom from all conscience. It is no
wonder then that all human purpose, though it be
multifarious in appearance, is constantly directed
towards it.
In truth, humanity stands united under the banner of
WOMAN, and the person who rejects WOMAN faces
rejection by humanity. The biological females of our
species embody WOMAN to a high degree, while the
males are left out in the cold. Look carefully into this
and you will uncover the essence of all male and
female psychology.
Women, to the degree they conform to WOMAN, need
not do anything at all. They are secure and passive.
They need not think, struggle, strive, and despair after
this profound psychological peace. But for men it is a
matter of life or death! It is for this reason that the
woman's mind is highly undeveloped compared with
the man's. For no matter where she is or what she is
doing in the world, a woman knows rst and foremost
that she is in fact - a woman. She lives and breathes in
the knowledge that her prime asset in life lies
precisely in her being this magical creature. Anything
else is almost superuous, a luxury, an added bonus to
an otherwise perfect state of aairs.
Man, on the other hand, is completely bereft of such a
magnicent power. He must fend for himself, relying
upon his wits to etch his way in the world. Thus, out of
necessity, man is continually looking at the broader
picture, assessing the implications of each situation,
thinking out the consequences of his actions,
developing a consistent philosophy, and reecting
upon what is actually true. Out of his deluded struggle
for acceptance into WOMAN, the priceless treasure of
conscience is born. Though he begins by seeking
WOMAN, he ends by rejecting HER, and it is here that
his relationship to Truth begins.

Looking Beneath Her Make-Up

It is necessary to dispel a few myths about woman.
She is wonderful at giving the appearance of
possessing qualities she does not in fact have. Many a

man has lost his soul to her, only to nd later, when it

too late, that he had been duped. The illusion is
incredibly powerful and requires the utmost sincerity
of purpose to see completely through it. Just observing
the way women present themselves is enough to
convince one that something's afoot. Their
otherworldliness positively reeks out of the light frilly
dresses, the lipstick and eyeshadow, the diamonds and
ornaments, the owing movements, the happiness on
tap. They seem to have no place in Nature's realm of
blood and guts and faeces. The closest they come to
tangibility is by way of abstraction - thought-stu is
what they are made of and nothing more. How on
earth did the relentless unforgiving process of natural
selection produce such daintiness?
It was the males who formed a buer between the
females and the dangerous world outside. It was their
role to deal with the life threatening situations that
regularly cropped up. So while men evolved the
necessary courage and strength to succeed in this
role, the females were left free to develop the delicate
charms of femininity.
The tribe, and later, civilization, became islands of
security, relatively free of the forces of natural
selection. Female evolution went o at a tangent
thereby; she became weaker, more fragile, less
equipped to deal with physical threats. At the same
time, she evolved a more subtle kind of power, one
whose evolutionary purpose was to enchant man and
place him under her power.
And to this very day, woman continues to weave her
magic spell in the safety of her cocoon. Man provides
her with this cocoon because he loves her so, and a
woman instinctively knows that it is her primary task
in life to preserve this state of aairs by ensuring he
remains satised with her. That is, she must remain
feminine .
Now, femininity is not something which springs
spontaneously into existence with the birth of a
female. No, it is the result of long years of training in
which the female must shed vast tracts of her mind in
order to be able to submit, defer, acquiesce, giggle,
irt, cajole, stroke, pamper - and remain happy about
the whole thing. What else can this be called but a
long drawn out labotomy in which the mind dies a slow

death? One can only feel for those few spirited females
who must go through torture in this process.
What little there is left of her mind must be employed
with great cunning. Her feminine skills must be used
discriminately to ensure maximum reward, for she has
little else to call upon should they fail. Her years as a
teenager are ones of constant endeavour in the
perfecting of this art. Appearances, gossip, and boys
are the lifeblood of her existence. It is vital she
thoroughly learn the art of inuencing the male world
to her own ends. Failure here can only mean one
thing: to endure the most horrible of all punishments that of being unwanted.
Seduction forms the frontline of her being. With skill
and condence it can prove a most eective weapon.
Yet it is fragile, and works only in a narrow range of
conditions. Woman needs a role and a stage in order to
function, and so it is lucky for her that theatre actually
rules the world and there is little else in our culture
apart from seduction.
Outside of these necessary conditions, the bubble of
woman is easily burst. Yet, paradoxically, she is always
innitely secure. She possesses an impregnable line of
defense which can be called upon at any time, under
any circumstance: that of caving-in completely. By
thrusting her mind into the chaos of her emotions she
can escape into a realm in which nothing exists. Deep
in her heart, woman knows this; indeed, it almost
seems a source of inspiration to her. "Smug" is the
adjective that rst comes to mind when one observes
woman, albeit it is a smugness born of
unconsciousness rather than arrogance. The most
determined of feminists and the most pathetic of waifs
are both equally - smug.
Behind the glitter and dazzle of woman lies an
emptiness which goes nowhere. The great skill of
woman - her art par excellence! - is her ability to point
beyond herself. All her movements suggest a source
hidden deep within her. Man looks and looks - but
nds nothing. He exclaims, "Woman is a mystery!" And
no wonder! Nothing exists there to be found! Woman
is purely the supercial, whose superciality so
skillfully persuades to the contrary. For she has no
depth - there is not one bit, not one tiniest fraction, not
even one slither of this fraction of anything other than
the supercial.

Her powers of deception here ultimately originate in

her not actually possessing a self, for woman is
completely seless. This is not the selessness of the
fully enlightened sage, but that of a child or an animal
- that is, of a being who has not yet formed reective
consciousness to any signicant degree. Having no
self, she is able to respond spontaneously to her
circumstances without the all the baggage that comes
with existing. She never experiences the need to
conform her actions to ethical principles, and this
gives her a condence and an inner glow that is looked
upon enviously by men.
***
Given the limited range of options open to her, and the
necessity for success within them, it should be clear
that the notion of woman being somehow less
competitive and selsh than man is completely false.
She is as every bit as egotistical as man, and her
competitive nature would do any man proud. It is just
that her egotism is shaped dierently to man's.
Indeed, part of her egotism consists precisely of giving
the impression that she possesses little or no egotism.
A woman is continually locked into erce struggle with
other women. It is easy to be fooled into thinking
otherwise, that women are above such petty activity,
but if you look closely enough you will see it. Their one
and only concern is status. Their one true happiness
lies in being seen to be superior to other women.
Marriage, children, houses, looks, clothes, lovers,
ornaments, wealth, politics, social and artistic
activities - these are just some of the things she can
call upon as visible signs of success in the great game
of womanhood.
At the same time, she is always scrutinizing other
women for the presence or absence of these same
visible signs. When two women meet, embrace, smile
and have a chat, you can be sure they spend their time
in conversation secretly analyzing one another. The
man perched on the other's arm is scrutinized for his
looks and wealth; children are examined and
compared as to whose is brighter, cleaner, happier;
there is the crucial matter of clothes, hair, wrinkles,
and fat - the list is endless. It all involves looking for a
sign that the other woman might have something over
her.

However, it is love which is dear to a woman's heart,

and in love she has the security of knowing that her
position occupies the highest rungs of femininity. In
this raried atmosphere, the world is transformed, she
has transcended the game, and there is nothing above
her. She no longer has any need to look out to the
world and anxiously check her current standing.
Instead, her whole being reeks of the knowledge of her
own superiority.
Her lover is mostly unaware of these processes
occurring in her mind. He is just attered that a
woman of her beauty and virtue is devoting herself to
him. He wouldn't like to think he is little more than a
tool for her feminine aims. Although she lavishes all
her attention upon him and dotes on him constantly,
never wearying of observing him in all kinds of
intimate detail, her happiness ultimately lies not in
him but in being in love itself. The man himself is of
secondary importance, a means to a higher end.
Alas, the charm of love soon fades, and the woman is
forced back into the dog-eat-dog world of womanhood.
She cajoles her husband into making more money,
obtaining new promotions, providing a better standard
living, being a better father, and anything else she can
think of to improve her status.
It would be easy to conclude from these writings that
I regard women as single-minded scheming creatures
who spend all their time conjuring up ways to improve
their esteem in the world. Not at all. For this would be
to endow them with masculine traits, which they do
not in fact have. No, rather, their entire being is
structured for the fulllment of this aim. Their
"schemes" are therefore inevitable and eortless.
There is no need to suppose they are products of
conscious activity. Women are as innocent and pure as
children.
Because they are fully absorbed in the status game,
women are very much prone to envy. The annals of
psychology are littered with examples of her terrifying
sense of injustice. Her morals and concerns are but
tools for the status game, and if they prove a
hindrance she will discard them as easily as she took
them up in the rst place - without batting an eyelash.

Woman is an habitual worrier. She feels that her world

is continually on the verge of falling apart. Her hair
tends to keep falling out from the desired shape. Her
clothes always seem crooked, her house untidy, her
children hungry. There are a thousand little things for
her to attend to. Accordingly, she has an eye for detail
that the man does not. And because her brain has to
incorporate this continual ux of detail and process it
into a manageable shape, the woman's mind generally
thinks at a much faster rate than the man's. Behind
her composure, her mind is alight with thousands of
tiny ashes of thought. In contrast, the male mind
entertains fewer thoughts that come through less
quickly and less urgently, but are capable of
penetration as a result.
Her skill, as woman, is in manipulating the countless
details of existence to her own ends. She is an expert
in subtlety. Tinkering and prodding, using an apparent
minimum of eort, is her art. She specializes in the
subtlest of facial expressions and bodily movements,
and the shaded nuances of emotion underlying her
speech - so subtle, so natural, so eective at
manipulating others. Man, by comparison, is a clumsy
and cloddish brute who attempts everything with a
sledge-hammer.
Woman is brought up to exist in the world of human
relation- ships. She tends to consider the non-human
world as being utterly trivial. Man, however, is brought
up to delve into science, engineering, philosophy,
sports, and so on - all of which take him outside the
human world and into the abstract realms of idealism,
triumphs and conquests. Although he depends very
much on the human world, part of him exists outside
of it. Consequently, he is nearer the Truth.
Or to put it another way, woman is nearer to WOMAN.
Her whole being moulds itself around it. And yet it is
a ction. WOMAN exists only within the human mind,
albeit deeply so. When women dedicate their lives to
success in the status game, what they are actually
doing is preserving the existence of this all important
ction. This in turn preserves the vital conditions for
the herd mentality to thrive unabated. While women
mould themselves around WOMAN, men wrap
themselves around women. This is the human race in
a nutshell.
***

It is a terrible thing to have to say it, and yet it must

be said over and over again: there is no possibility of
a woman ever coming to understand the Innite. She
simply lacks what it takes to attain it. If, however, she
were to be reborn as a man that would be another
matter. In other words, if she could develop the
masculine within herself and at the same time
eliminate the feminine, then she has a chance. Then
some good might actually come into the world.
But such devotion to reason inevitably leads one away
from all that which is called human. This is diicult
enough for a man, but for a woman it represents the
worst nightmare imaginable. In fact, both sexes hate
truth more than they hate death itself. Just the very
existence of men and women is proof enough that
human evolution did not depend on thinking truthfully.
Our culture could be described as a process which
converts the physical elements of nature into the many
lies and dreams in which humans live and prosper. In
this, the sexes work so well together. As a team, they
excel in the noble art of avoiding reality altogether.
Really, they can never thank each other enough.

A Psychological Interlude
Whoever it was that said humans spend their lives
attempting to crawl back to the womb was not too far
from the truth. More accurately though, the ego is
fundamentally motivated to nd the supreme
happiness and security of infancy and early childhood.
The infant bliss - a timeless, aimless sea of joy - is
perhaps felt most acutely between the time when the
conceptual faculty becomes developed enough to give
consciousness any meaning and the time when we
begin to fully appreciate the terrifying vastness of the
world we live in. Once driven out into the whirling
chaos of the outside world, we rarely experience such
dream-like bliss again.
Initially, the infant's attachment to the mother is
primarily a physiological one based on familiar sounds,
odours, and visual patterns. But as the child develops
intellectually, and its awareness of the world
increases, the infant begins to suer the contrast
between cold hard reality and the dream-like bliss of

its former existence. The latter comes to be

increasingly rekindled only through the mother's
secure presence, which causes the infant to become
increasingly attached to her. In the infant's eyes, the
mother becomes a supreme, all-powerful God, the
embodiment of all goodness and perfection.
Through her, the infant/child can re-experience the
heavenly realms of infancy and thus comes to view the
mother as being the guardian of this realm. She is the
"gatekeeper", as it were, the gate being the entrance
to supreme happiness; a gate through which the young
child may be able to enter, if it so pleases the mother.
This process forms the core and soul of the egotistical
mind. It forms the basis of the thought-patterning and
emotional make-up which will persist throughout life,
and will express itself as the search for permanent
happiness. It is indeed the essence of WOMAN.
As the child grows, the mind hardens under a storm of
adult conceptions and it soon forgets the infant bliss it
had once so loved. This leaves a strange void in the
child's mind. Driven by hungry infantile emotions, the
child will spend the rest of his life chasing something
it knows not what. He will necessarily come to see
Nature as the enemy to be conquered and destroyed.
An unfailing faith will spring forth in the belief that
worldly skills and success will surely beat a path back
to the heavens. Innocently accepting society for what
it is not, the ego will throw itself into love, business,
friendship and status in an eort to fulll its hidden
agenda. Or else it will be forced away into the
fantasies of religion and mysticism, believing that its
Holy Grail lies elsewhere, in some other world or
dimension. Or else it will simply give up in cynicism
and while away its time in the forgetfulness of
chemicals, television, books, music and sex.
And so it goes on and on, and all the while Wisdom sits
forgotten in the corner, waiting patiently for some
madman to follow his reason and to experience the
supreme truth of this world.
***
We have seen that the young child, be it male or
female, comes to regard his mother as the supreme
God, protector, and provider of eternal happiness. A
point is reached, however, when the paths of the
young male and female diverge and go their separate

ways. The male child gets rejected from his mother, as

it were. He is made to realize that he cannot grow up
to be a mother, but must become like that altogether
shadowy and complex gure in the background, the
father.
Indeed, the mother herself encourages him in this,
rewarding him if he performs the conventional "manly"
acts. Thus, he is pushed rmly, gradually, further and
further out into the cold, away from her warmth of old.
A process gradual enough to continually reairm his
addiction to her, yet strong enough to shatter forever
his complete trust in woman.
He will never again be entirely comfortable in her
presence. Even when in later life he becomes
intimately involved with a woman, he remains uneasy
- unless she continually displays her unfailing devotion
to him. The smallest of signs that she is not
wholeheartedly interested in him is enough to cause a
man fear. Rejection is but a whisker away!
Now, it is at this tender age that the boy is expected to
perform acts of independence. His uncertainty with
regard to his mother leads him to value the male world
more highly than her - it becomes a substitute mother,
a more certain mother. Success and fame become her
embrace, male comradeship her aection.
To put it another way, the young boy ceases to see his
mother as being perfection, the gatekeeper to eternal
happiness, but comes to regard this divinity as being
somewhere else - somewhere out in the world. He is
made to strive, conquer, and succeed in the world, to
succeed enough to be deemed "worthy" by this hidden
divinity. Perfection has rejected him - and he spends
the rest of his life seeking its favour and acceptance.
At a very young age a boy comes to know the suering
of solitude. He learns to depend on himself, his mind,
his wit, and his reason. He learns to introspect in an
eort to understand what crime he has committed to
deserve such a fate. Perfection has rejected him! Does
this therefore mean he is evil? Or worse,
uninteresting?
***
Little girls go through no such trauma - they are far
too busy happily being mothers themselves. "Girls
mature faster than boys", and they are brought up

steadfast in the belief that they are perfect in their

own purity.
The young girl also comes to associate the idea of
perfection with mother. She too comes to see her
mother as being the gatekeeper to eternal happiness.
Realizing that she herself will become such an entity,
the little girl begins to formulate an ideal based on the
concept. She creates the Dream - the ideal of the
perfect woman - to which she will even now begin to
conform herself, only to develop it later into an earnest
pursuit.
Here we can see an essential dierence in the
psychology of the two sexes. The female is brought up
to believe that she herself will become the divine
gatekeeper, whereas the male will see his task as one
of conquering her. The female creates the image of
the ideal woman, after which she creates a dream-man
to compliment this ideal. The male, on the other hand,
must learn to manipulate himself so as to resemble her
image of the dream-man. Not having the benet of a
concrete clear ideal as she has, he is to all intents and
purposes a lost soul.
The female is constantly in close involvement with her
ideal. It is essentially a static image and it is merely a
matter of growing in conformity with it. The highest
expression of the Dream lies deep within her and
subconsciously motivates all her actions. It involves
her being the very embodiment of perfection,
innocence, and love - with the entire Universe
worshipping her as such. It is an ideal she
unquestioningly believes to be utterly right. Her
deepest desire is for it to be actualized and thus for
her to be able to submit to it entirely .
The Dream begins to take on a structure and shape
through the various inuences of her childhood. She
reads fairytales and stories, studies her elders, and
practices with her peers. By the time she reaches her
teens she will have become thoroughly obsessed with
the Dream and with the art of making it real. Here
now is a time of trauma for her, as she is subjected to
real pressures for the rst time in her life. The
pleasant dreams of childhood no longer suice and she
must now master all the tricks of the trade.
During this period the young girl will come to reject
her mother as being the embodiment of the ideal. The
"later" mother is no longer seen to be the "early" one.

Her mother has fallen from grace, as it were, and

becomes for the young girl an object of pity or disgust.
The ideal is detached and placed elsewhere, on to
other women.
Now, the Dream inevitably involves a man, and it
becomes imperative for the female to nd one who
somewhat resembles her dream-man. It need not be a
particularly close t. If she can nd a man that has
some semblance of the right characteristics she can
use her skills as a woman to craft him into an even
better likeness. Failing that, she can make up the
shortfall with fantasy. The more the man comes to
resemble her dreamman, in her eyes at least, the more
she is able to submit to the Dream.
***
All men feel, deep down, that they are failures. From
an early age perfection has cast them aside, and from
an early age they are made to feel responsible for this.
They feel they must now prove their worth and are
thus driven out into the world to try to assuage the
pain. What man fears most is to have his failure, as a
human, exposed - either to himself or to others. He
fears having his deepest belief about himself
conrmed. And as the man grows older this is
compounded by the possibility that his entire past life,
a life spent in trying to redress the whole situation, is
also one of failure. Hence, a man does his best to
conceal such matters.
Like the female, the man comes to create an ideal of
perfection in his mind, but at a much later age.
Whereas the female's ideal is inexorably directed to
the common ction, WOMAN, and hence is static, the
male ideal is far more exible and open to change. All
he knows is that he must conquer and succeed in
something.
The man creates an image of himself succeeding in a
particular activity and fantasizes about the subsequent
fame and adulation. If this image gains credibility
through some success in the external world then,
egotistically speaking, so much the better for him. His
joy in conquest lies in this: the distancing of himself
from his feeling of failure.
It is not true that man fears "re-engulfment in the
mother", or that he fears to lose his individuality in

submission. No, indeed, it is in fact deepest desire - to

dissolve himself in a sea of absolute happiness and
security. Nor is it strictly true that he fears the
feminine. What he does fear is WOMAN'S judgement
and her rejection of him. In the mind of every person,
and consequently reinforced in social myth, is the
belief that woman is closer to perfection than man.
This is no mere accident, for such a belief forms the
very base upon which our society is built.
Man is given the faculty of will, but the price he pays
for it is guilt. The more woman is regarded as the
embodiment of perfection, the more a man will appear
lost, despicable, and worthless. That is to say, woman's
perfection is emphasized in order to magnify the
male's sense of worthlessness. Thus he spends his
energies in an eort to gain her approval, and in a
most eective way, the wilder, more independent
nature of the male is restrained in conformity with the
"common good".
A Religious Interlude
It will be plainly obvious to anyone with an ounce of
intelligence that in the formation of WOMAN we also
have the formation of the Christian God. The essence
of the Christian God is literally made of the stu of
WOMAN, which in turn is a psychological ction
created out of early relationship between infant and
mother.
Indeed, what else is Christianity but an infant crying
out for its mother? Both infant and Christian worship
an all-powerful God standing high above them, who
smiles compassionately down upon her/His creation.
Both infant and Christian believe the maternal values
to be the highest good. Both infant and Christian crave
the presence of their respective Gods, both submit
willingly to their authority, and both expect their Gods
to punish or reward their behaviour. Both are seeking
permanence, comfort and security in an everchanging
world.
In other words, both are trying to preserve their own
egos.

The Feminine Mind at Play

If the art of winning lies in the ability to conceal one's

tactics and intentions, then it is no wonder that woman
is so good at conquering man. She has honed to
perfection the skilled use of contradiction and
disguise. Just look at how she presents herself, for
example, with her elaborate attire, make-up,
ornaments, shapely dresses, tight-tting clothes,
together with her childlike personality - what is the
meaning of all this? Is it simply a desire to be
attractive? Yes indeed, but the purpose is always to
conquer and control man.
Firstly, her manner must advertise her sexuality.
Whatever form this may take - from the subtle shapes
to the more revealing, from the raunchy to the
sophisticated, from ornamentation to facial expression
- whatever form this may take, she must be able to
grab man's attention and provoke his arousal.
Men must come to desire her, to want to get involved
with her. But wait! The interested man immediately
stumbles into a contradiction. Where he sees sexuality,
he also sees innocence. Where he sees assertiveness,
he also sees helplessness. Her childlike manner, her
spontaneous laughter, her naivety, naturalness and
unaectedness - this seems to both heighten and
diminish her sexuality, causing the man to be thrown
head rst into confusion.
Here is woman in perfect stride. She has deliberately
presented herself sexually, indeed has spent many
hours planning and pruning herself thus - and all for
the purpose of manipulating the man. But at the same
time, it is vitally important for this intention to be
disguised. She acts to ensure that what man sees is
nothing short of pure loveliness - a beautiful creature
innocent, carefree, spontaneous, and submissive. The
male is now at the end of his wits wondering how to
approach her, and woman exploits this to the full. She
is cast into the position of power, to use the
authoritative Yes or No.
But this is not all, for a third factor immediately comes
into play, one that provides real bite to her authority the factor of otherworldliness.
Essentially, the otherworldliness of woman is related
to mother. In appearance woman does not resemble
mother, nor does she need to. Rather, she gains her
transcendental power by analogy. Herein lies the true
purpose of make-up and ornamentation: to enable the

female to appear utterly distinct from man's own

earthiness. This distinction, this barrier between her
and all things of the earth, along with the physical
triggers of odour and soft curves, is enough to revive
the old infant emotions associated with mother.
The man is by now aroused, confused, and cautious.
He aches for her with all his being, but now it is up to
her to judge him worthy or not. If he should make as
much as one false move, she can persuade him into
thinking he is nothing more than a horrible monster!
Or, in an instant, she can cause him to soar into the
heavens with her glance, her smile, her touch!
These three factors - sexuality, innocence, and
otherworldliness - comprise the arsenal which the
female unhesitatingly utilizes in her attempts to bring
man under her control. Her body is her hidden
treasure, a gift reserved for the most select; from her
innocence pour forth movements of pure clean
melodies unsullied by cares and concerns; her
otherworldliness bathes her in a sea of mystery, of
mysteries eternally elusive to us mere mortals.
Combine the three and you have the powerful illusion
of completeness.
The plethora of contradictions which surrounds the
female emanates from the complex interplay between
these three factors. Being in full control of this
interplay is the woman's art.
***
If the whole of gender psychology could be summed up
in one sentence, it would be this: men look to the
future for their happiness, while women nd it in the
present.
In everything he does, man performs with an eye
towards how history will judge him. Achievement and
fame are what is dear to his heart. This is no mere
vanity, but is a deep psychological drive rooted in the
male condition.
For women, it is the Now that counts. She believes the
present reality is all that matters and it is our right to
nd as much happiness as we can out of it. She simply
cannot understand why men do not see this and accept
it. As far as she is concerned, the only reason we
should to look to the future is to ensure the happiness
is there when the future nally becomes the present.
To them, anything more is merely men's foolishness.

Woman lives more directly than man. While man

continually distances himself from each situation by
way of reection, woman absorbs herself easily into
the world around her. As a result, circumstances aect
her more easily than they do a man. She is prone to
extreme emotional states, and generally nds herself
being ung from one state to another.
The very thought of this would cause a man to
tremble. He would be repulsed by the seeming lack of
control over one's aairs. It is therefore curious that
women themselves do not harbour the slightest unease
over their plight. On the contrary, their capacity for
enjoyment is plain for all to see.
Woman has the tremendous ability to nd enjoyment
in every situation she nds herself. No matter where
she is or what her circumstances are, woman is happy.
In love, she is happy; in grief, she is happy. Through
long years of feminine upbringing, her mind has learnt
how to instantaneously transform itself as the
circumstances demand. One minute, she is joyfully
experiencing life like a child; the next, she is wringing
her hands in selfpity; the next, she is busying herself
with the pleasures of irtation; the next, she gives
herself over to anger - there are thousands of ways for
her to extract enjoyment. This is a reality far removed
from man, to whom all things tend to cause pain.
It is clear then why women have no principles, or at
least principles which last two consecutive moments.
Consistency and changeability must remain mutually
exclusive. The only thing consistent in women is her
lack of consistency. She can believe one thing today, its
complete opposite tomorrow, and not bat an eyelid.
How could she be doing wrong when she had
succeeded each time in enjoying herself immensely?
Paradoxically, although circumstances aect a woman
more easily than they do a man, they nevertheless
make more of an impression in man. At a particular
moment, a woman may be deeply impressed by
something, but the moment passes and she moves onto
something else, which - lo and behold! - also impresses
her deeply. Indeed, woman is deeply impressed with
each experience she has. As a result, nothing
impresses her.
Man is a substance which circumstances can act upon
and alter, while woman changes form with every
passing moment.

***
Just the fact that women are regarded as objects of
beauty sties any potential for philosophical
development. They come to learn very early on in life
that their prime asset in the world is their desirability
as women. To ensure a constant ow of benets, all
that is required of them is to know how to please and
manipulate men. And women know this is a skill easily
learnt.
Even when very young, a woman understands what
buttons to push in a man in order to get her way. She
knows the value of coquetry, irtation, ego-stroking
and other such feminine charms. Her very own father
is prone to become putty in her hands. Through trial
and error she learns that feminine behaviour rewards
while masculine traits are barely tolerated. This acts
to shrink her mind to minimal proportions
Woman is one-dimensional. She knows nothing other
than the steadily owing stream of emotions. Anything
other than this is inconceivable to her. In her heart of
hearts, she nds reason and the dialectical process
empty and meaningless. She has tremendous diiculty
in holding within her mind two or more abstract ideas.
She nds it diicult to stand back and assess the
logical relationship between them. Hence she is illequipped to expose inconsistencies in her thinking.
Whatever idea she happens to be entertaining at a
particular moment absorbs her more or less
completely, sealing her o from other ideas.
It is easy to see, then, why the concept of truth has
little meaning for her. She can only judge an idea in
terms of how much happiness it gives her. Her
subconscious mind processes such factors as how
many other people hold the same view, the question of
who it is exactly that hold the view and their value to
her, the reaction she would get if she were to
articulate this view to her friends, and so on. In short,
her concern is what eect the idea will have on her
place in the herd.
Thus we come to the key ingredient of female
psychology. What she hates most is any form of
personal responsibility. To stand up and be accounted
is anathema to her whole being, which only desires to
merge in with the crowd. The only way she will adopt
a position in life is when she is absolutely certain that

there are signicant others who hold the same

position.
What she wants from man is not necessarily a sound
ethic, but for him to simply carry the burden of
responsibility for her. He may be an honest
businessman or a serial killer, it matters not, as long
he has the power to carry her away and make her
happy. This is the core of her gullibility, for which she
is famous.
Women cannot be blamed for such behaviour. For
many thousands of years, in the course of our
evolution, cultural selection has seen to it that the
female become more lovely and delicate, and at the
same time less intelligent and assertive. The strongest
males who reached the top demanded beautiful
females who were submissive and worshipful. Thus,
over time, any unfeminine characteristics that happen
to exist in the female population would be all but
eliminated.
A Peek at Sexual Intercourse
Woman looks for the appearance of a foothold; man
looks to create one. Behold the interplay between
woman and man!
***
Lovers may believe that they become one in a unity of
love, but they would be deceiving themselves to think
so. They might experience emotional highs and altered
states of consciousness in each other's company, but
the woman's bliss is rmly rooted in a dierent soil to
the man's. For the male and female have had entirely
dierent upbringings, have dreamt dierent dreams,
and thought dierent thoughts.
For the woman, falling in love is the start of real life.
Her whole past life has been nought but a preparation
for this. Like the person who strives to imitate his
favourite ctional character, the woman in love
blissfully performs the expected actions and
experiences the expected emotions. She knows the
plot inside and out - her joy is to live it out.
Here she is in her natural element. Just like the stage
performer, who, having rehearsed long and hard so as

to become highly skilled, and come performance night

rises to the occasion, intoxicated, revelling in the
power of his coordination and spontaneity, so too the
woman in love never has to say: I do not know how to
act here.
Similarly, the man in love feels he has entered a higher
realm of being, but his joy is dierent in kind to the
woman's. In irtation and sex it is obvious that his joy
lies in conquering her - most obviously in the latter
when his emotions often approach hate and
destructiveness. However, I strongly submit that in
every type of interaction with a woman his sole
pleasure lies in conquering her. I include here every
type of relationship imaginable, from the rawest to the
most tender and innocent. In all matters pertaining to
woman, the man's joy is that of conquest.
What are the traditional roles of marriage but
expressions of this? What greater pleasure is there for
the man, knowing that he can come home from work
and there will be his slave, whore, and mother
patiently waiting to lick his wounds and revitalize him
for his next day's adventure?
Far more subtle though, and consequently harder to
detect, are the pleasures of conquest in the so-called
modern open relationship - I mean that relationship
possessed by the artist, poet, and intellectual; a
relationship much sought after by the liberated
woman, where equality claims to be reigning. This
type of relationship involves the more fragile, the
introverted, the wounded - where the male, skilled in
the art of holding back, in subtle manoeuverings, in
prolonging the conquest, gains his pleasures in
exploring emotional territories, in deepening her
acceptance of him, in "overcoming his inhibitions"
through an increasing openness towards her - all
forms of conquering. Spiritualized sex, as it were.
The highest form of love between a man and a woman
is both extremely childlike and very mature. It involves
notions of vulnerability and empathy combined with an
awareness of the impermanence of all things. It occurs
when both partners give up their romantic ideas of one
another and of themselves, and when each is prepared
to accept the other as he or she really is. Here the man
looks lovingly upon his partner as a "soul mate". Or,
should I say, as a duplication of his own ego? Ah, ha!
Complete conquest!

Observations on the Modern Situation

Am I dissatised with the way male values are being
expressed in the world today?
Yes.
Am I then in favour of the women's movement in its
attempt to change the situation?
No, because the woman's movement is based upon,
and is in its entirety, a pack of lies.
2
The history of the sexes has always been one of mutual
tyranny. The evolution of patriarchal institutions was
the male response to the oppression he suered under
woman. An equilibrium was reached, with power being
spread evenly between the sexes.
Now, woman has no intention of giving up her own
power but is requiring man to shed his. The end result
of this will be a tyranny so complete it would have
Stalin turning in his grave, cursing that he had been
born both a male and a century too soon.
3
It is a common view of our age that the male
characteristics of reason, logic, and love of conquest
are primarily responsible for the sad state of the world
today. I will ignore the fact that these very same
characteristics also provided the world with a
civilization, complete with thousands of luxuries and
other assorted painkilling devices, and I will instead
concentrate on the essential error of its argument.
Surely it is obvious that emotional attachment is the
prime cause of harm in this world. Reason and logic
are but tools available for our use. It is not their fault
if they be directed towards deluded ends. Emotions
are responsible for all the damage.
Yet, as one to a chorus, women and holy men spend
their time extolling the virtues of emotion. I am struck
dumb by their belief that Western society is a product

of too much reason! Are they serious? I assure you

that it is a product of too little reason. As yet, Western
society has no conception of what it means to live
rationally - that is, without attachment.
Likewise, the conquering spirit of man does not of
itself produce the world's ills. Only when it is directed
towards the promotion of false ideals that it causes
trouble. Why do men wage war? To promote or protect
wealth - a thing which, curiously enough, women value
highly.
Man may pull the trigger but behind him stands
woman, nodding in approval. He has not allowed
himself to apply his magnicent spirit to rational ends,
to Truth, but has always been persuaded to squander
it in petty ideals.
At root, the cause of all war, violence, hatred, and
injustice is not nationalism, economics, religion,
racism, or male aggression, but egotism. To be sure,
egotism is in man, but it is also in woman. Male
egotism is obvious for all to see, whereas female
egotism is disguised, concealed, hard to perceive - but
then, the art of concealment is part and parcel of a
woman's egotism.
Now because male and female egotism compliment
one another, and have evolved together, the valuing of
the one automatically means the valuing of the other.
Male egotism, as traditionally expressed in the world,
is dependent upon female egotism, and vice versa. If
women were really concerned with the state of the
world, if they were in the least bit serious about the
task of eliminating the causes of our problems, if they
were to possess even the merest speck of genuineness
in their "movement", then they would be attacking
their own egotism at least as much as they so
enthusiastically attack the male's.
But women are as far from this as they can possibly
be. Their only concern is to increase the satisfaction
and pleasure of their own egotism.
4
Modern Spiritual Wisdom preaches: trust your
emotions, allow them to be expressed spontaneously;
free yourself from the rigidity of logic; listen to your
deeper feelings and desires; reach out to somebody
and make contact; let yourself go.

Modern Neo-Nazis preach: trust your emotions, allow

them to be expressed spontaneously; free yourself
from the rigidity of logic; listen to your deeper feelings
and desires; reach out to somebody and make contact;
let yourself go.
5
The inherent ungratefulness of woman is most obvious
in her "movement". Acknowledge, if you will, that the
world we live in is, and always has been, a woman's
world.
Women have amazingly short memories. They are like
children who are so taken in by what is happening at
each moment they completely forget what life was like
yesterday. They forget that the only thing which stands
between them and the untamed forces of nature is
man. They forget that the whole system of buildings,
labour-saving machines, entertainments, and luxuries
which give women so much pleasure and security was
created by man. They forget that their whole lives are
spent entirely within man's embrace, and that without
this their world would completely fall apart.
If man was to be criticized, it would be for doing too
good a job. He has made woman too happy and secure,
so that nowadays, with her innite capacity towards
forgetfulness, she has come to hold the value of man in
contempt.
It is due to the very success of the male created world,
that most men no longer have to deal with life and
death situations on a regular basis. But also, because
of this, the value of masculinity is being called into
question by these forgetful men and women. The rise
of the woman's movement is greatly fueled by this
aspect alone.
But how quickly things can change! Watch what
happens when Nature rears its ugly head and physical
danger arises! Feminine dogma falls by the wayside
and even the most hardened of feminists miraculously
nd men to be of signicant value.
6
What does the modern woman want? An egalitarian
society? A society of individuals, each of unique worth,

where gender is irrelevant? I, for one, would wholeheartedly welcome such a society. But - and this is no
mere trie - it would need individuals to comprise it.
7
Women do not want to be individuals, they want to be
- women! In fact, the role of woman has evolved
precisely to minimize any genuine individuality.
Conict, a something fundamentally dierent from the
norm, an intense and sustained suering, a
conquering and striving for lofty impersonal ideals these are the qualities of an individual, qualities which
woman regards as aberrations of character. She hates
the individual, who necessarily undermines her world.
She strives to make everyone like herself - openminded, happy, tolerant, caring, sensitive to others,
cooperative - that is, a non-entity.
8
Woman claims to desire real substance, yet the values
she holds dear - her "living for others" - necessarily
implies her lack of it. She desires substance, but it is
impossible for her to create something out of
nothing.Instead, she must continually strive to weaken
others, to reduce them to her own level of
nothingness. Only in this way, she can gain a feeling of
substance.
9
If a woman truly desired substance, then she would do
well to throw o all that which makes her appear more
substantial than she really is: the relinquishing of the
roles of seducer and mother; a ceasing to be the actor;
a refusal to use illusions to emotionally manipulate
others to her own ends.
Can a woman do this? Does a woman want to do this?
I fear she does not desire genuine substance, but only
an imitation of it. I fear she only desires the increased
status involved in appearing substantial. I fear she
nds femininity all too pleasurable to give any honest
consideration to such matters.
10
And so, the "new woman" strives to appear more
substantial. How does she go about this, remembering
that she is rst and foremost an actor? By way of

increasing her own complexity! By becoming more

adept at muddying her own waters. By becoming
more unpredictable. A revamping of her old teenage
brashness and precociousness. In short, she aims to
inspire confusion in all who dare look at her.
11
Of what use is independence to a woman if she is - all
alone? I suspect that what she means by independence
is not emotional non-attachment, but being in the
position of having more options for the fulllment of
her dreams. Her independence is the freedom to
become dependent upon another man.
12
In the end, the great dierence between man and
woman is the quality of self-reection. Woman claims
to be self aware, but deceives herself. Or rather she is
very aware of herself - as woman! Rarely, if ever, does
she reect enough to see beneath woman. She hasn't
the courage and strength to make such movements. O,
how far she is from discovering her True Nature!
Her mind is made for the purpose of succeeding in the
game of womanhood. She is thus self-conscious, not
self-reective. Of what use is Truth to a woman if it
doesn't give her status?
13
Things have certainly changed. In the past, women
had at least some respect for the male mind. She was
perceptive enough to see that there was something
more to it than meets the eye. She could feel his power
of thought and knew not to get in his way. Her role,
she knew, was to support him when required.
Things have certainly changed. Now, she plunges into
the male mind with a childlike abandon, only to grasp
supercially at its contents. Her own lack of depth
blinds her to the existence of all depth. She gaily
concludes that men worry about nothing at all. Men
are lost fools who stupidly think about nothing. She
then goes further to say that she herself is the
profound one. Oh supreme irony!
Without doubt, the most terrifying thing about the
modern woman is her total lack of awareness of true

profundity. With her ever-increasing inuence, she is

even able to persuade the male that such depth does
not exist, that he merely mental masturbates, that he
should instead return to the immediacy of his own
femininity. Consequently, men are being robbed of
their very souls!
14
She thinks the Universe was created especially for her.
To her, the feminine is the be all and end all of
existence, and things should act soley with this
purpose in mind. The world is thus divided into two
neat categories - femininity, and the rest of reality.
It is the latter category to which man belongs. He
more than anything represents the baseness of
existence which must be conquered if she is to fulll
her feminine destiny. Alas! Her goal can never be
realised. Nature is not made in this way. It is too
complex, things are too impermanent, for her dream to
ever survive. Reality, that is, man, cannot help but act
against her.
But her dream is what counts. If it is shattered or
remains unfullled then reality/man is to blame. The
woman's movement represents an eort to give her
dream victory, a victory over reality. Or rather, it is a
type of revenge on reality - reality being man - because
it has the erontery to shatter her dream.
Her goal is supreme power over reality. Woman
deserves victory, her femininity should ourish
unimpeded, precisely because - she is a woman!
Femininity is perfection; reality is the beast, the
animal, the obstruction, the enemy. Complete and
utter control of reality - this is an ideal of power of
which man has yet no conception.
15
Woman is now more educated, and increasingly
participates in the world of the intellect. Although she
likes to pretend she is a serious thinker, her mind
actually resembles a fashion shop. She dons an idea as
she would a lovely new dress. What she lacks is true
penetration of thought, that is, the ability to think
something all the way through. Although it is claimed
that she does this, it is simply not true. This is because
real penetrative thought would inevitably take her
outside the world of womanhood, which she cannot
bear. She thinks about a problem only until an answer

pops up to her egotistical satisfaction. That is, her

criterion for truth is based on the amount of happiness
received and not on whether something is true or not.
That is why woman never attempts to discover the
principle which explains all. For it would amount to
questioning the validity of femininity. It would taint her
perfection and make her sad. To seek ultimates would
be to drag womanhood from the realms of divinity
down to the mundane sphere of natural causes.
Hence, her intellectual activity is conned to merely
responding to existing theories and ideas. More
specically, she seeks to uncover that which represses
her femininity. Hence her obsession with "patriarchal
domination" and the like.
16
Given the banality of femininity, there will always be a
few intelligent, strong-willed women who will nd little
satisfaction in it. The potential for genius no doubt
occurs as frequently in women as it does in men.
Unfortunately, femininity only acts to stie genius, so
that even these rare women are unlikely to develop to
their full potential. Female geniuses nd it extremely
diicult to shake o the feminine image of themselves.
Instead, they are usually forced to take hold of the
feminine dream and to push it into raried heights
where it can never be satised, and they end up being
crushed by the meaninglessness of their lives.
A step down from genius lie the leaders of the feminist
movement. Worshipped and revered by the masses,
these few women, unencumbered by genius, are clever
and strong enough to manipulate femininity to their
own ends. The entire feminist movement is just this:
strong-willed energetic women claiming the highest
status of womanhood by virtue of changing and
extending the very denition of femininity.
Yet they could never have done this alone. Had they
not gained the support of at least a few women, they
would have merely been dismissed as ratbags. They
managed to gain this support by skilfully manipulating
the emotional dissatisfactions of the common woman.
At any given moment a signicant number of women
will be dissatised with their lives. However, this
dissatisfaction is only temporary; woman's basic belief
in femininity remains intact. In the meantime, women

express their dissatisfaction in the form of revenge,

which is moulded by those few strong- minded feminist
leaders into a woman's movement. Like sheep, the
masses of women swallow whatever their gurus tell
them, revelling in indignation. Yet when this becomes
boring, as it must, or when a new dream (i.e. a man)
oers more appeal, then these women drift away to
become ordinary women again.
Thus the feminist movement has an extremely high
turnover. It has the appearance of stability, a steady
voice for women, but is no more than the noise of an
extreme minority in constant ux. These few strong
feminist leaders are never in short supply of admirers.
Supremely happy are they, intoxicated with power and
status. They force the concept of femininity to be
extended to so high as to make gods of themselves.
This severely wounds the common woman, who has
her own status reduced and her feminine happiness
tainted by feelings of failure.
17
If one needed no other proof that the feminist
movement is not concerned with equality with men,
nor even with so-called oppression by men, but that it
is nothing other than a process performed by a few
women in search of feminine happiness, then one need
only look at the fundamental assumption of their
philosophy.
Women, they argue, are oppressed and restricted into
a feminine ideal designed by men. This implies that
woman is the powerless victim. This serves to relieve
women of all responsibility and to perpetuate the
belief that femininity itself is blameless and pure. Such
a belief only preserves the submissive/dominant
emotional interplay between woman and man, and
consequently creates the conditions for all the things
that women profess to hate.
If women really do want to become the equal of men,
then they do their cause no good at all by presenting
themselves as "powerless victims" of an oppressive
male society. For there are only two alternative
conclusions that can be drawn from this assertion, if it
be true, and neither of them is attering to women.
Either it is the case that women really are powerless
victims of male domination, in which case they are by
denition inferior to men; or else they are the equal of
men but have allowed themselves to be subordinated,

in which case their character could only be regarded

as highly suspect.
There is no way around this. There are no other
alternatives. Women paint themselves into a corner by
fostering this "we are powerless victims" line, however
good it is in making men feel guilty. No, it is better to
accept the situation as it really is, that women have
never lacked for power in this world and have always
obtained immense enjoyment in using it. It is better if
women acknowledge that they gain their power
through submission and take great delight in this state
of aairs. Only by recognising the truth of a situation
can something be done to rectify it.
In my observations, however, woman is not the
slightest bit interested in changing the situation. In
her heart of hearts, she simply adores herself as she is
- and she certainly loves man the way he is. The
philosophy of the "powerless victim" articulates this
loud and clear. The "woman's movement" is nought but
a giant feminine lark and deep down even woman
herself is amazed that it has gone on for as long as it
has.
18
The modern woman is far better o than her
predecessors, for now she can explore her fantasies to
the full. The feminist movement has dramatically
increased her powers to a level previously undreamt
of. She is even now in the position to mould the men in
her life to her exact specications, knowing full well
the power of rejection lies totally within her own
hands. She creates the "new man" to play with. This is
a man sensitive to her needs as a woman but who
remains harsh to himself. Above all, he must not
display weakness. The last thing the modern woman
wants is to have a wimp to tie her down. She could not
possibly submit to such an entity.
The new man, for his part, is bedazzled by this new
species of female. She is unpredictable, uncontainable,
and wild. His pleasure consists in simply being
involved. He regards her as the most desirable of
women and is attered by her acceptance of him feeling airmed, like some naive teenager, that he is
successfully well-adjusted.

Since the modern woman is a woman of means, a

career woman, out and about, mixing with people, she
produces anxious feelings in her man's mind over the
possibility that she could leave him at any moment. He
must therefore strive like never before to develop his
"new man" skills in order to keep on winning her. He
may be continually on the verge of jealousy, but he
must never let this show. Jealousy implies weakness,
and his modern woman expects him to be a mature
and independent human being. Thus, his skills
necessarily include the ability to transform his
jealousy. He performs to please - he buys owers,
takes her to dinner, indulges in her fantasy for
romance, gives her space, allows her to see other men.
In short, he continually changes his personality and
values so as to keep on winning her.
19
The credibility of the woman's movement suers
greatly from the fact that it wants to have its cake and
eat it too. Take sexual harassment. Women keep on
complaining about it, men keep on feeling guilty about
it - but really, there is never any genuine attempt to
eradicate it.
For example, it is said that women should have the
right to dress as they please and that men should be
able to control themselves. This is a classic illustration
of feminine logic, designed to avoid all responsibility
and consequences. Does not woman dress in order to
aect the male mind? Of course she does! How she
loves to arouse a man's passions! How she loves to
transform a robust man into putty with a single glance
of her eye. Small wonder when her plans sometimes
turn against her!
No indeed, it is far from the case that women want
men to control themselves. What she really wants is
for her to be in control of man's loss of control. When
this is the case then all of the things that are usually
labelled "harassment" - the stares, sexual innuendoes,
sly touches, and even rape - magically cease to be
harassment and instead become the foundations of a
passionate new romance.
Hence, woman really does not want the "sexual abuse"
to stop. Indeed, what could she despise more than a
man who is completely indierent to her? Rather, her
complaint is: "Man should know when it is right to
harass me, and when it is not."

Poor man! Women seem to have no consistency in

their intentions and desires. One minute he is an
exciting and courageous hero, the next a monster
intent on tyranny and abuse. Such power over man
delights her no end, and she has no intention of ever
giving it up.
20
What is sexism? Sexism is to make judgements purely
on the basis of sex, while ignoring other relevant
factors.
Woman is sexist. Her whole manner of life says: "Man,
you are so despicably low that even just a little thing
like my appearance causes your mind to wilt." She
dismantles man, not by reason, but by seduction.
It is out of the depths of contempt that woman
approaches man. She sees man only in terms of his
relationship to her. She is like the child who thinks the
sun exists only to keep us warm. She lives purely in
the domains of emotions and sex; consequently, she
thinks man does also. She nds him incomprehensible
when he acts to the contrary. "Man is stupid", she says
at one time; "Man is lost", she says at another . . . and
smirks.
In truth, man is never seen by her at all! Instead, she
interacts with a construction of her own desires. "Why
else does man exist, if not for me?", thinks every
woman.
Thus, woman is sexist.
21
It cannot be denied that some good has come from the
woman's movement. The challenging of traditional
modes of thought is always a worthy enterprise, and
women are quite capable of this - at least on a social
level.
Today's world provides men with great freedom, but
restricts women to a support role. Women are fully
justied in questioning and challenging this state of
aairs. But it must be emphasized that whatever the
value of the woman's movement, it is still nevertheless
a corrective and not a solution . It is like a medicine
which may cure one form of sickness (and not
necessarily others), but which produces the need for
further treatment of its many side- eects.

Feminine philosophy can never be a solution but, at

best, only a response.
The woman's movement only
has to go a little distance before encountering an
impenetrable barrier. This is a barrier created by their
lack of the appropriate skill and courage necessary to
eliminate the true causes of what women perceive to
be wrong in the world. Indeed, it is hard to know if
women will ever realize that their very dreams and
aspirations contribute enormously to the growth of all
that they perceive to be wrong with the world. Their
utter enjoyment of life will always act to preserve their
ignorance in these matters.
22
I urge you not to be fooled by women. They will tell
you that they are stronger, tougher, more intelligent
and more interesting than men. At the same time they
will tell you that they have been oppressed by the
malesociety for thousands of years! If this is not a
contradiction, then I don't know what is.
Woman is a creature designed to play many types of
roles in society - wife, mother, daughter, friend, peacemaker, helper, career woman, to name but a few. Man,
on the other hand, tends to concentrate his energies
on a single purpose to the exclusion of all else. Thus
what he loses by way of broadening his character he
gains by depth of achievement.
To be sure, woman is far more complicated than man.
She is able to be all things to all people. She is more
spontaneous, more unpredictable, more light-hearted,
more tolerant, more empathetic, more delightful than
man. But she is essentially an aimless soul because of
this. She shines brightly in the present but leaves little
of worth behind her.
She is a chameleon, capable of the most astonishing
transformations in personality. Some people might
regard this entertaining, but I myself nd it a
tremendous bore. Compared to the majesty of God
women are as about interesting as a lump of dirt. They
are like cream cakes - capable of giving one great
pleasure for a moment but fail to satisfy in any
genuine sense.
But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you look
upon women and nd them to be delightful charming
creatures, and if you are not disturbed by this rather

odd perception, then you can be certain you are not

destined for wisdom.
Who am I?
It may be that the reader, having reached this point,
will have forgotten my warning in the introduction and
conclude that I am a misogynist. Need it be said,
nothing is further from the truth! Indeed, I regard
myself as a true leader of the movement for women's
liberation.
What could be more important to women than to have
someone point out the falseness of their lives? What
else does liberation mean, if not the escape from
delusion? There is nothing in me that desires to put
women down. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't do it women are already as low as they can get and cannot
be put down any further. My desire, rather, is to help
them up.
Women want to be regarded as equal to men, but it
cannot be done by simply wishing it. What is usually
forgotten by women is that the question of equality has
meaning only in relation to a particular purpose.
Equality by itself is meaningless. For example, in
relation to the purpose of running the fastest mile,
men and women are not equal. The question of who is
superior to who is always judged in some context. As
far as wisdom is concerned, women are inferior to
men.
This kind of thinking scares women. It implies judging,
discriminating, categorizing, discarding, hurting, and
being hurt. They try and escape it by emphasising
"equality but diversity". But this, as I said before, is
meaningless.
A sure sign of the genuine philosopher is his
uncompromising attitude with respect to the feminine.
But this does not mean that he hates women. Indeed,
he cannot hate women, for that would be to hate
Nature itself, and this would be sheer stupidity to say
the least. The philosopher is fully aware that all things
have causes and that both woman and man are
therefore innocent in every aspect of their existence.
How could he hate what is blameless?
What he does hate is delusion . For it is delusion which
robs us of what we truly are! How can we discover our

true nature if we cling to what is false? Spiritual

progress is always a process of rst exposing what is
false and second eliminating it from one's being. The
rst is reason; the second is faith.
I openly admit that I care little for women's typical
interests and concerns. At best, I nd them banal - at
worst, depraved. I realize this view will not make me
the most popular person around - but at least I have a
conscience.
Woman is the embodiment of delusion; consequently
she is the enemy of Truth. When the sage renounces
the world, he does not go o to live on a mountain top,
but rather stays within the world - and renounces
woman. More specically he seeks to eliminate the
feminine from himself.
The philosophic path is the most diicult and the most
serious: it can be tread only by giving one's life over to
it entirely. It is a growing away from the womb in the
will to conquer death. It is the dismantling of all false
conceptions so as to let one's eternal perfection shine
unhindered. This is True Love - open and without
reserve.
Those few individuals who partake in this noble task
are like explorers who go straight forward, boring into
their own minds with unbroken eort, never letting go
or retreating. Then the breakthrough suddenly comes,
and with that they penetrate their own nature, the
nature of others, the nature of consciousness, the
nature of evil, emotions and enlightenment, the nature
of perception, the nature of non-perception, the nature
of time and of change, of desire and suering, the
nature of reality - all of them seamed in a single
instant of thought. The great matter of their
philosophical quest is completely and utterly resolved.
There is nothing left. They are free from birth and
death. What a thrilling moment it is!
Appendix
The last few decades has seen a signicant increase in
the worship of the feminine, especially in the areas of
philosophy and religion. The male qualities of striving
and conquering, of rationality, are being devalued or
else are put to use toward feminine ends. Why so? It

will be of some benet to highlight some of the main

factors that have contributed to this development.

The growth of the cosmopolitan world.

Modern technology has revolutionized communication
and travel, resulting in the mixing of previously
isolated and distinct cultures, and the subsequent
erosion of their cultural identity. The world is
gradually becoming one vast homogeneous culture, a
Western culture. This is giving rise to a form of
tolerance whereby those values shared by the dierent
cultures are emphasized and the dierences ignored.
This is unfortunate, for it can only be that the values
shared by all cultures are the basest - namely the
feminine values.
Thus we get, for example, the spectacle of theistic
Christianity and atheistic Buddhism trying to embrace
each other via the shared values of "compassion".
Their vast intellectual dierences, so vitally important
in the realm of the spirit , are being swept away under
the homogeneity of emotion.
Such tolerance may in part be a corrective to racism
and other forms of inter-cultural friction, and as such
is of some benet. Yet it is enormously harmful if
spiritual discrimination is sacriced to attain it. Such
tolerance is supercial and sorely needs a corrective
itself.
Also, with the growth of huge metropolises there has
been a breakdown of the powerful kinship structures.
As a consequence, people are suering from loneliness
and insecurity as never before. In an attempt to oset
these feelings, people are submitting to the feminine for by so doing, one transforms the entire species into
one's "family".

Science .
It is ironic that the male-dominated pursuit of science
has been a major player in the rise of the feminine.
Science has, for many people, made the belief in a
Christian God totally unacceptable. This has had the
apparent consequence of destroying ultimate meaning
in life. Although this is certainly a better philosophical
position than Christianity, it is deluded none the less.
Instead of entering into the purposelessness of
existence and discovering its innite signicance, we
turn away from it in despair and seek refuge in the
emotions.

Purposelessness deeply threatens the ego - it provides

no security, no dreams and hopes for the future. In
contrast, the ups and downs of emotional life provide
a steady stream of rewards and it is here we nd our
meaning. At bottom, the ego nds meaning only in the
growth of its own power and happiness. Having made
the rm decision not to explore what purposelessness
really means, we strive like never before to turn the
universe into as cold and dark and alien a place as
possible - so as to enjoy our cuddling one another all
the more.
When philosophic striving ceases, the worship of the
feminine begins. The philosophic implications of
science are simply unacceptable to our egos, so we
worship the pleasant dream of the feminine instead.
Then, as if to rationalize this behaviour, we try to nd
fault with the faculty of reason! We say that science
has failed to nd ultimate meaning, that it has
destroyed all that we previously found meaningful therefore reason is faulty, limited and incomplete. Yet
it is not reason, but our lack of courage which is to
blame.
Nor are academic or professional philosophers doing
anything to help reason along. People look to them to
shed light on their confusions, but nd cold sterile
arguments which weave all about in an enormously
complex manner, only to nish in a confession of
ignorance. People naturally conclude that reason is
useless, and the only alternative they see is the
emotions.
Science has brought about the technological
revolution. Life is now softer, easier, warmer, less
painful, more pampered. We have lost that ability to
bear up under hardship. We are thoroughly addicted to
both physical and mental comfort, and because
femininity is the most pleasant of all things we want it
most of all.
Technology has ooded us with entertainment for
distraction. Now more than ever, there is no end of
ways to immerse ourselves in superciality. This has
the consequence of destroying all the conditions
necessary for the growth of real thought. And
femininity ourishes superbly in the soil of no-thought.
Television deserves a special mention. I am told that
Australians watch an average of ve hours a day. This

is ve hours of feminine indoctrination passing freely

each day into the subconscious minds of our fellow
humans.
The chief pleasure in watching television is the
eortlessness of sitting vacantly and absorbing oneself
in fantasy. As we all know, the television networks are
interested in ratings and thus to put on programs
which draw the biggest audiences. They do this by
appeal to what is basest and most common in our
society - emotional dreams. And dreams are what the
feminine is made of.
Technology has also given rise to the devastating
modern weapons of war. Many people put the blame
for this on science, on male reason. This is obviously
wrong but it does not stop them from advocating the
return to the "civilized" ways of femininity.

Altered states of consciousness.

Over the last few decades such experiences have been
attracting increasing attention and have underlined
the growth of interest in Eastern thought. By altered
states I mean those blissful realms which seem to
pulsate of profundity - the so-called religious
experience.
This is a very unusual experience, qualitatively
dierent to what we call normal consciousness.
Indeed, it seems so much more real than the everyday
world. Blissful, timeless, sublime, holy, deep - one feels
that one has come upon something of eternal
signicance. When we turn our attention outwards,
everything appears dierent. Normal everyday things
now seem to exude the sacred. God! It is God! Tears
well up as one contemplates this mystery. The ultimate
answer appears as equally mysterious as the question,
and yet it satises the mind. Or does it? Who can
say? The psyche oscillates with feelings of familiarity,
anxiety, clarity, mystery, fulllment and alienation.
Note well, these experiences are not related to
wisdom. People experience these "heavenly realms"
and naturally, but erroneously, interpret them to be
God or Nirvana. They then busy themselves seeking a
belief-system to support this view.
These experiences awaken the deep-seated emotions
of the ego. They powerfully revive the old infant
yearnings for supreme egotistical happiness.
Sometimes, these experiences are accompanied by
vivid memories of childhood, especially of long-

forgotten mental outlooks on life. All this persuades

people to the view that spirituality is in the direction of
the womb, which consequently strengthens the belief
in the feminine. For the feminine is rmly rooted in
childhood.
If the mind which experiences these powerful and
blissful altered states lacks discrimination, then there
is grave danger. If one has a poor understanding of the
way delusion builds up the ego, then one will take
these "glimpses" for what they are not. If one is not
committed to rational consistency, to the desire to fully
understand ultimate truth, then there will be no
stopping the imagination from constructing the most
fantastic interpretations of the world. If one's reason is
not grounded in the concept of cause and eect, then
all altered states of consciousness are worthless.
Indeed, if your mind lacks all these qualities, and if
you speak out on the virtues of compassion often
enough, then you can be sure the world will hail you as
a man of great wisdom.
Altered states can be of benet in that they powerfully
bring home to one that there is denitely something
more to life than meets the eye. These experiences can
be an excellent progressive stage on the way towards
the beginning of spirituality. These experiences
themselves do not relate to spirituality, but can help
send one to its gates.
This stage of development can properly be called the
aesthetic stage. Upon experiencing a deep altered
state, the ego naturally becomes extremely interested
in exploring the matter further, and does so through
books, art, music, drugs, meditation, etc. However, the
mind which is developing will soon see the stagnant
nature of this path. It will say farewell to the aesthetic
stage, perhaps painfully, and will embark earnestly on
the true spiritual path, the path of reason.
The one obstacle preventing people from entering into
the beginnings of genuine spirituality is the lack of
intellectual discernment. Absolutely vital is a good
intellectual understanding of what Truth is, combined
with a deep understanding of what the ego is. If this
does not exist, then a person will travel down all paths
except the true one. He will think that he is developing
spiritually when in fact he is merely developing
egotistically. Clarity as to what the path is is necessary

before one can travel along it. It is impossible to

stumble along it by virtue of blind chance.
Altered states are but the tip of the iceberg. If one
touches them without the sharp sword of
discrimination, then an innite chasm will immediately
arise between oneself and Truth. Just look at how one
person converts to Buddhism, another to Christianity,
and yet another to atheism - all on the strength of an
altered state! This farce alone should give one pause
for thought. Clearly, at least two of these converts
have absolutely no idea of what they have
experienced! Yet all three will swan about the place,
certain they know the truth and, God forbid, even go
out and preach it to others!
This is the great danger of altered states. Being so
seductive, they can empower the mind to believe in
the most narrow-minded and irrational of concepts.
They so easily capture the soul and place it in a cosy
little room situated in an impregnable fortress. Such a
soul is safe and happy, and lost forever. "I know." - this
is all it can say for itself.
Dishonesty
This underlines the above factors and forms the very
substance of the feminine. The ego has no trouble
snuggling up to a few thousand lies in the great bed of
pleasure. Indeed, dishonesty has always been of
paramount importance. Mankind cannot stand an
individual taking honesty to extremes. Even in the
supposedly male-oriented rational society of ancient
Greece, Socrates was put to death for having a welldeveloped conscience.
***
These are just some of the factors which have given
rise to the increasing stature of the feminine in the
world of thought. There are others, such as the rise of
modern democracy, with its large middle-class, and the
increase in the number of women participating in
activities of the intellect. These many factors have
served to create perfect conditions for the rise of the
feminine in world aairs, just as certain atmospheric
conditions give rise to the formation of clouds.
Having said all this, all is not lost. The above
developments have also contributed to the rise of the
wide variety of conicting beliefs, opinions and
philosophies now existing in our awareness. Today,
more than ever, a person looks to the world for

guidance and a never-ending stream of contradictions

come back at him. Out of this confusion can grow the
beginnings of real thought.